“This new 1.5 megawatt power plant will really demonstrate its scale – that large scale solar can work, the technology works and establishing these plants is actually proving on the ground that they work,” he said.

“[It] is really a massive step forward towards creating a new solar industry for that part of Victoria.”

The Member for Mildura, Peter Crisp, has welcomed the announcement and says it is a milestone in the plant’s development.

“Part of that development that makes it so critical at this stage is that they are now getting ready to start construction in Mildura,” he said.

“Those who have been out will see that it’s fenced, there’s a road area, there’s loading bays – there’s a whole lot of work being done but now you’ll start to see the parabolic dishes being assembled on site, as it now starts to move into that larger scale project.”

EVENTS

March 31 – Tweed Heads – Queensland – March in solidarity with remote Aboriginal communities in Western Australia

March – Melbourne – City of Yarra, including International Women’s Day Free Exhibition: FIRST WORLD WAR WOMEN working for peace in Melbourne 1914 – 1919 www.womensweb.com.au

This is confronting. It is history that is not just history.

This series of panels illustrates and documents in the women’s own words a peace movement that confronts us even today.

If you think Australians supported the First World War, the idea of civil liberties is new, non-Aboriginal Australians were, in the main, racist and conformist, come and see FIRST WORLD WAR WOMEN working for peace in Melbourne 1914 – 1919.

-Mid April to Mid May 1915 – Kildara Centre

April 1 – AdelaideCOUNT ME IN! how people power can protect nature and tackle climate change

April 6 – Perth -Waging Peace – film screening and Q & A with David Bradbury RSVP here